Right now (December 26th) the top player in the online ranking is Truckerteller and his score is 1817.

I believe when you first start to play online, you begin with 1500 (though others might know for sure), so your score of 1200 simply means you've lost some games. With continued play and wins, you'll bring your score back up and get past the starting score again.

My score was never 1500. None of the friends I play with have ever been at 1500 and we've been playing a couple of years now. To go down from 1500 to 1200, I'd have had to lose many more games than I've won, right? I've won about half of the games I've played, so should stay around my starting score...
Sorry, don't understand whether I'm playing with a new player at 1500 or a seasoned player at 1500. Just doesn't make sense.